Garment-fastener.



J. G. CARTER.

GARMENT FASTENEE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, 1907.

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GARMENT-FASIE NER.

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Application filed June 20, 1907. Serial No. 379,978.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES C. CARTER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Decatur, in the county of Macon and 'State of I l inois, have invented certain new This inventlon relates to the general class of buckles, buttons, clasps, etc., and more especially to separable garment fasteners;

and its object is to produce an improved hook and eye whereof the members are not easily disconnected and not injured by being ironed over or put through the wringer.

To this end the invention consists of a n eye member standing wholly in one plane, and a hook member having no bill or socalled hook proper, but in place thereof three engaging projections whose tips stand in a plane above the shank of the hook member yet nowhere over it, so that when the two members are engaged the eye stands in a plane between theplanes occupied by the hook shank and the pro ections mentioned.

The invention also contemplates certain modifications and amplifications, as well as the construction of the device. from wire or sheet metal. r

Perhaps the most practical embodiments of my idea are set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which the same letters of reference are used to designate the same or equivalent parts throughout the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view with the members engaged; and .Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hook member thereof, showing its manner of insertion in the direction of the arrow into the eye member, which latter is illusa Qignates broadly the eye member having an,

opening K which is larger at the rear end and smaller toward the front end. In Fig. 1 the side edges of its narrow portion converge. It is thought to be unnecessary to further describe this opening except as it coiiperates with the other member in the manner set forth below.

Throughout the drawingsthe letter H designates broadly the hook member whose specific construction is set forth below;-and the letter A designates the attaching end of both members, here shown as consisting of perforations through those which are of sheet metal or eyes in those which are of wire, through either of which may ,pass stitches or other means or devices by which the members are attached to the parts of the garment which are to be connected. In all the types it is essential that the member I shall stand wholly in one plane, 'and that the attaching end and the shank of the hook member H shall stand wholly in one plane, with .its engaging projections in another plane spaced from the plane of the shank by the thickness of the member I.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the opening in the eye member and the shank of the hook member are rather long, and the lateral projections are upbent from the s'des of the shank out of contact with each other, and then bent outward and terminate into tips p so spaced from each other that they, may pass through the larger end ofthe opening K, after which they may be drawn into the smaller end =thereof so that the shank of the member H Patented J an. 11, 1910.

stands under the outer end of the eye, the p upbent portions of the projections pass upward through the opening K, and the'outturned tips thereof lie on the upper face of said eye. The shank is continued beyond the point where the lateral projections occur and bent upward and then outward into a longitudinal engaging projection Z which stands in the same plane as the lateral projections When the two members of this hook and eye are engaged the lateral .projections engage the sides of the loop fprming the opening K, as above described, while the longitudinal projection l engages the rear end of the loop as illustrated. The hook member is inserted obliquely through the eye member in the manner shown in Fig. 2, and when the members of this type are engaged they are locked from disconmotion as long as their bodies remain 111 they have e "'ltuehnai {JTCQQM .01 J16 of an attaching e engaging pro- I 11;; Gut ofits lane M ng ever any paz'i; 01 it.

i ten-er comprising an eye a key-hale opening in its d a shank lying Wholly in (I one longitudinal and two iat- "1-3" on the shank bent into tips Mine with each other but out of shank and. nowhere ovexi said went faeener comprising an eye wholly inene plane and havle opening in its body with its quite accurate (0 say H U; the front; and a, hook memhei'zi; up fmzn flze .fshzu T em of an attaching end and a "n all pmjcctiens stand in :1, shank ,Hy in ene plane, projections net e the shank and its at bent up 1nd thence laterally outward from the the shank and 9. third projection be and. thence longitudi- (F; of said shank and erence to the heok in 1* 15,5,

risis, and are the perticm ant fastener.- cemprising an eye wholly in we plane and having (1 at the 21-7217. end an opening in its smuhe" nd to the front; member can 21g of an attacha shank i'in'g wholly in one iiens bent Werd and thence Nll'd from the sides of the 1D 11.11 m third projection bent upward ying; will moi and (hence iengitudinafiy outward t ihe them out. end 0i said shank into the same plane as the important tehote thai the hook an ii'ge of the lateral projections and adapted e no hill or hook proper, and Umt no to the rear end of said openin "lien 0:" its engaging end he?) ever any In tesfinmnywhereofl? have hereunto eub- A V a 11' T he e co: rue scribed my signai'ure this the eleventh day 0f A, U. 1907.

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